Michigan · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC
DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,857 to it, the largest being CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Desk Drawer Fundshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundationlocalportfolio match
- McLaren Greater Lansingshared funderslocal
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $17k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
98% of DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Desk Drawer Fundshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 21 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- McLaren Greater Lansingshared funderslocalMI · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingshared funderslocalMI · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you
- Invest Detroit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prosperus Detroit Micro Lendingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Experimental Stationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Economic Growth Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Nonprofit Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate Energyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joe D Pentecost Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 30 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Downtown Lansing Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC?
- DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,857 to it, the largest being CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $320,857 in grants to DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC?
- CONSUMERS ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing